Imagine cutting open a fresh avocado bought straight from the grocery store only to come face-to-face with a small bullet embedded in the flesh.

One Reddit user has gone viral after sharing a photo of a friend holding a piece of an avocado bought from Sprouts Farmer’s Market and a small-caliber bullet, with the caption, "[m]y friend found a bullet in an avocado that she bought from Sprouts."

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The image sparked a flood of comments ranging from comical scenarios to legitimate suggestions for how the bullet may have ended up in the fruit.

"This is probably one of those Mexican blood avocados I heard about in a Freakonomics podcast."The gist of it is that cartels would essentially hold towns of avocado farmers hostage by making them pay protection money," said one user.

Another commentor suggested that small animals eating the crops could be to blame. "Squirrels eat avocados like crazy so farmers shoot them. Hence the small caliber bullet."

One user who claims to work at a lab that analyses foreign objects in food (among other things) says that finding things like bullets or other debris in grown food is not uncommon.